91. Kirkeby, Per. Signatur 29. Remagen: Theo Rommerskirchen, 1998. Square folio, 56 pages (Japanese bound) with double page colored illustrations, one original colored lithograph and loosly laid in a four page text that prints correspondence between Rommerskirchen and Kirkeby. All together in thick protective plastic holder.

- First edition. One of 990 signed (on front cover) copies with original colored and signed lithograph. With short bio- and bibliography. Signatur is published twice a year. (isbn 3-926943-599). euro 200

092. Kirkeby, Per - Meier-Graefe, Julius. Eugène Delacroix. Essays zur Kunst. Mit Vignetten von Per Kirkeby. Aus dem Franzosichen von Julius Meier-Graefe. Mit nachwort von Siegfried Gohr und Gunda Luyken. Kleinheinrich: Siegfried Gohr und Gunda Luyken, 2001.  Small quarto, 256 pages, with frontispiece and 14 full page colored "vignettes". Illustrated and colored wrappers.

- First edition. One of 10 copies with 2 original engravings (21 x 15 cm) initialed and dated by Kirkeby. The engravings are printed on Japanese paper by Niels Borch Jensen in Copenhagen. This translation by Julius Meier-Graefe was first published by the Insel Verlag, Leipzig in 1912 and is the only available translation of Delacroix' texts in German.ISBN: 3-930754-23-1. euro 850

021. Klug-Berninger, Irmtraud - Coryllis, Peter . Ganz zuletzt. Kurzprosa und andere kleine Texte. Offenbach a. M.: Self published, 1987. Small quarto. A 7 page Leporello made in a mixed technique using etchings, blind stamping and collage. Illustrated wrappers.

- First edition. One of 10 unica’s, numbered and signed by Klug-Berninger. Coryllis’ text is at the basis of this artists’ book. euro 180

093. Knoblauch, Urs. Genauer Erfassen. Zuerich: Galerie und edition Annemarie Verna, 1975. White card board box (2,8 x 15,8 x11,5) that ccntains a colophon page + 12 white heavy card board cards with a verb printed in the center of each card (BEOBACHTEN, BEFRAGEN, FORSHEN, ENTDECKEN, EXPERIMENTIEREN, ANALYSIEREN, üBERPRüFEN, BEWUSSTWERDEN, ERFASSEN, EMPFINDEN, FÜHLEN, ERLEBEN).+ 13 folded pieces of cardboard to be glued to the back of the cards.

- First edition. One of 50 copies, numbered and signed in pencil by Urs Knoblauch. euro 100

094. Kosuth, Joseph - Di Pietrantonio Giacinto - Vattese Angela (a cura di) Joseph Kosuth. Norme e significati. Rules and meanings. Un’installazione An installation. Visiting professor Joseph Kosuth. Lavoro localizzato. Located work. Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Corso superiore di arte visiva, 1995. Milano: Skira, 1997. 2 Volumes, both small octavos. Volume I: 94 pages, 2 3 page fold out illstrated pages + 14 pages printed against a black background. Volume II: 153 pages, 24 illustrations inblack and white + one double page in color. Both volumes greenpaper over boards and both together in green printed sli case.

- First edition.Volume I includes, next to the installation views of Rules and meanings, a biography, selected solo exhbitions, selected group exhibitions, selected curated exhibitions, and curated installations as works, selected architectural and public projects, public collections, selected bibliography + selected books and catalogues. Volume II contains the description + illustration of all 24 participants of the workshop * text contributions by Iwona Blazwick, Francesco Bonami, Nicholas Bourriaud and Viktor Misiano. euro 60

095. Kounellis, Jannis. Jannis Kounellis. Mönchengladbach: Städtisches Museum, 1978. Printed cardboard box (20,5 x 16x 2,4 cm) containing 4 sheets, one with a title-page and colophon, and three pages with Alexander Bloks’ poem "Die Skythen" ("The Scythians") + a multiple, being a piece of hard pressed cardboard (19,7 x 15,5 cm) on which an iron rod has been pasted with thin white paper.

- First edition. One of 440 numbered copies. (glasmeier 444) euro 1.500

096. Lafranca, François, Gianfredo Camesi, Gottfried Honegger, Eduardo Chillida, Arturo Bonfanti and Marcel Wyss. Kunsthalle Bremen. Locarno: Editions Lafranca, 1976.

A small quarto size 7 page catalogue about the Lafranca Paper mill in the Valle Maggia, with illustrated wrappers.

A 39 page booklet with a history of the Editions Lafranca from 1966-1976 with 54 illustrations in black and white and in color. Illustrated wrappers.

Furthermore 6 original blind stamped and printed works on hand made paper by Gianfredo Camesi 11.76 Eau-forte; Gottfried Honegger 13.70 Aquatinte + relief (in blue and yellow); Eduardo Chillida 2.73 Bois gravé (signed by Chillida); Arturo Bonfanti 2.75 Lithographie (in black and ochre) and Marcel Wyss 7.76 Relief + a blind stamped portfolio with the text Kunsthalle Bremen + Editions Lafranca by Francois Lafranca. All together in original publishers cardboard slip case.

- First edition. One of 50 copies. euro 250

097. Lapicque, Charles - Estienne, Charles. O et M. roman. Illustrations de Lapicque. Paris: Le Soleil Noir, 1966. Octavo, 154 pages, frontispiece and 12 full page illustrations. Silk screened wrappers. Original glassine. Uncut copy. In black cardboard slip case. A mint copy.

- First edition. One of 150 numbered copies 'dans la serie " club " du " Soleil Noir "', on "offset Licorne des papeteries Arjomari ", with a numbered and signed silk screened cover by Lapicque. euro 180

098. Lavater, Warja. Leporello. ‘livre sculpté en lithographie. Paris/ Zürich: Müller, 1982. Narrow octavo, a 24 page leporello printed in green, black and pink. Illustrated paper over boards. Edges of boards slightly chafed, but still a very copy.

- First edition. This copy signed in pencil by Warla Lavater on colophon page. euro 120

099. Lavater, Warja. Bâton rond et bouffon nommé virgule. ‘livre sculpté en lithographie. Paris/ Zürich: Müller, 1982. Narrow octavo, a 24 page leporello printed in brown, red and blue. Illustrated paper over boards. Near mint copy.

- First edition. Signed in pencil by Warla Lavater on colophon page. euro 180

100. Lombardi, Daniele. Albumblätter 13 fogli mobili per pianoforte (a Stéphane Mallarmé). Cavriago: Edizioni Pari e Dispari, 1978. Narrow quarto size printed portfolio containing 19 printed cards on heavy stock. Loose as issued.

- First edition. One of 400 numbered and signed copies. (dematteis - maffei nr. 1549) euro 40

101. Lucebert - Jan Van Toorn - Adri Boon. Poppetgom. Amsterdam: Stichting Octopus, 1969. Metal can (29x 22,5 x 8,5 cm) with metal screw top covered with paper wrapper designed by Jan van Toorn. The unopened can (a can-opener is pasted on top of the can contains a 244 page book published on the occasion of a theatre performance that travelled through several cities in the Netherlands and was broadcasted on television on the evening of june 4 1969. The theatre piece was an effort to create a ‘total theatre’ in which all the arts are involved and inspired by a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Some image-sequences were adapted of Borges, mixed with texts by Lucebert (‘tijdtafel en geslachtstabel’, ‘aldus belde ik de welbekende dolores hawkins op’, liefde, ‘de soldatenmoeder’..) Music: Bruno Maderna; Mise en Scene: Adri Boon; Set design: Woody van Amen, Hans Hollenbach, Adri Book, Pat Andrea and others. The television registration was done by Fred Bosman.

- First edition. euro 800

102. Lùcia, Alberto. La communicazione Interotta.(the disrupted communication) Bottiglia di vetro bianco con versi autografo di Alberto Lùcia arenata in gesso e so.. N.p.: Self published, n.d. Rectangular wooden box that contains a closed glass bottle molded in white plaster. The bottle contains handwritten verses by Lùcia, has a printed logo with the initials of AL Alberto Lùcia and one printed label that is numbered and signed in pen by Lùcia.

- First edition. One of 30 numbered and signed copies. euro 350

 

 

103. Mack -  Piene - Uecker. Mack  Piene  Uecker. Krefeld:  Museum Haus Lange, 1963. Folio, one fold out (6 pages) 6 illustrations by Mack on one folded page 8 illustrations by Piene on one folde page and 8 by Uecker also on one folded page - illustrations in the documentation – section. Pages loose as issued in white blind stamped paper folder. Folder lightly soiled.

- First edition of this exhibition catalogue (january 20 – march 17 1963), signed in pencil by Uecker and signed and dated by ‘Macke 86’ and ‘Piene 87’. euro 350

104. Mark, Phyllis. Words. Color Meditations. N.p.: Self published, 1973. Narrow quarto size leoprello, un paginated (20 pages) of which 10 pages are printed in color. The leporello is kept in stiff loose wrappers that fit into a printed grey slip case. Slip case soiled and used.

- Edition unknown. euro 60

105. Matsuzawa, Yutaka. Nine Mandalas. N.p.: Media Neuchâtel, 1982. Square white printed cotton bag (23 X 23 cm) containing 1 colophon page + 9 printed envelopes. Each envelope contains nine printed pages. White cotton bag lightly soiled, otherwise a very fine copy.

- First edition. One of 90 numbered and signed copies. The colophon page prints: 'These are nine mandalas and its nine parts. They coincide with the nine assemblies of the diamond world mandala of Esoteric Buddhism. By re-assembling and changing the position of these parts, numerous new mandalas are created. Alas!' The titles printed on the envelopes are as follows: From Matter to Language; Amitayur-dhyana- Sixteen Meditations; Nine Incantations; Asunbha-bhavanah - Nine Meditations; Nine Prophesies; Nine Blueprints (Chun-tzu Style); Nine Nows; Catechism Art and Vanishings.' euro 300

106. Mayer, Jürgen. Gästebuch – Guestbook. Düsseldorf: Edition Wolgang Wittrock, 1996. Quarto, un- paginated and interleaved with rice paper. Printed stiff wrappers.

- First edition. One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Gästebuch – Guestbook is published on the occasion of the exhibition Disappeared in the Randoph Street Gallery, Chicago, and is part of the installation Housewarming ll. Text by Cornelia Vismann and Tilman Baumgärtel. ‘Das Gästebuch ist ein Gebrauchsgegenstand. Die seiten des Buches sind mit einem Datensicherungsmuster bedruckt. Die benutzte Farbe ist temperaturempfindlich: bei direkter Berührung verändert sich die Druckfarbe mit der Körpertemperatur zur Durchsichtigkeit. Eintragungen weden lesbar, die sonst hinter der datenverdeckung verschwinden....” euro 100

107. Megert, Christian. Warum arbeitet Christian Megert mit nichts als Spiegel. Texte Christian megert + Claus Bremer. Bern: Artists Press / Urs und Rös Graf, 1973. Sextodecimo, un paginated, (approximately 150 pages, numerous photographic illustrations + typewriter poems. Silver colored illustrated wrappers.

- First edition. Signed by Megert + with Megert’s original fingerprint. euro 150

108. Menan, Manuel. 1: 13.500. Amsterdam: Da Costa, 1981. Painted plan of the city of Amsterdam (unfolded 104 x 87 cm) attached to a printed black cloth container.

- First edition. One of 25 numbered and signed copies. euro 160

109. Munari, Bruno - Soavi, Giorgio. Los Àlamos. Poesie di Giorgio Soavi. Tavole a colori di Bruno Munari. Milano: Officina d'Arte Grafica A. Lucini & C., 1958.  Large folio, 28 pages, six colored sik screen illustrations. Printed wrappers. In original grey/green paper slip case.

- First edition. One of 200 hand numbered copies. The titles of Soavi's poems are: The Winslow Hotel; Dalla Porta d'Oro; Il Santa Fe; Aiace; La spiaggia di Amagansett; Taliesin West. euro 2.400

110. Munari, Bruno. Teoremi sull'arte. Milan: Vanni Scheiwiller, 1961. Small square duodecimo, 48 pages. Printed wrappers..

- First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. euro 150

111. Munari, Bruno. L'idea è nel filo. Milano: Bassetti - Lucini, 1964. Small square duodecimo, 24 pages. Blue wrappers and blue printed dustwrappers.

- First edition. One of 1000 copies that never have been distributed. a white thread runs through the 16 center pages, while each page prints at the bottom a syntagmatic variation on the sentence 'il lenzuolo moderno in un tessuto nuovo' - 'il moderno nuovo in un lenzuolo tessuto'.... (dematteis & maffei 1853) euro 950

112. Munari Bruno. Nella nebbia di Milano. Milano: Emme Edizioni - Lucini, 1968. square octavo, 52 pages printed on different and different colored stock with several circular and sime circular cut-outs. Illustrated and laminated covers. Mint copy.

First edition. With introductory note by Munari. euro 400

113. Munari, Bruno. Xerografia. Documentazione sull’uso creative delle macchine Rank Xerox. (Milano): Rank Xerox, (1970). Large Quarto, 52 pages, numerous illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. A very fine copy of this rare publication.

- First edition. This is the first ‘hors commerce’ edition of a book, later published in 1977 by Zanichelli in Bologna: Munari, Bruno, ed. Xerographie originali : Un esempio di sperimentazione sistematica strumentale (Original Xerography: An example of instrumental systematic experimentation). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1977. Munari demonstrates how the Rank Xerox copying machine, the RX 720 can be used creatively. Munari uses materials, text and photographs to demonstrate these possibilities. In the foreword Mundari compares the RX 720 with a piano-forte, saying that you can play a long note on a pianoforte, but a it is just an instrument that does not make art, but an instrument with which ‘one’ can make sound art. Here is part of Munari’s foreword in Italian: ‘...Le possibilità tecnologiche della nostra epoca possono permettere a chiunque di operare e di produrre qualcosa che abbia un valore estetico, possono permettere a chiunque abbia eliminato il suo complesso di inferiorità di fronte all’arte, di mettere in azione la propria creatività per tanto tempo umiliata. Uno dei compiti dell’operatore visuale sarà quello di sperimentare, di cercare gli strumenti e di passarli al prossimo, con tutti i « segreti del mestiere » che possano facilitare l’operazione del fare. Le macchine Rank Xerox hanno la possibilità di aiutare chiunque a manifestarsi. Inventate per riprodurre imagini, oggi possono produrne. Naturalmente, come tutti gli altri mezzi, anche loro hanno dei limiti, ma se si pensa ai limiti strumentali del pianoforte, per esempio, col quale non si può fare una nota lunga... eppure non si può.' Presentation copy, inscribed on page 3 with red pen: 'A Gianni Ferranto & Vera / MUNARI / settembre 1970.' (dematteis & maffei 1862 - these authors give as publication date 1971. The publication itself has no date. this inscription makes it highly probable that the publishing date was not 1971, but 1970 !) sold

114. Nara, Yoshimoto. Lullaby Supermarket. Edited by Manfred Rothenberger. Nürnberg/ Munich: Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg/Michael Zink Gallery, 2001. Oblong octavo, 203 pages, illustrated throughout. Illustrated paper over boards. A seperate box filled with foam contains an 8 cm high and 8,5 cm ø snowdome that contains the figure ‘Dreaming in the Fountain’. Kept all together in an iIllustrated box 23 x 25 x 13,5.

- First edition. One of an undisclosed number of the limited edition, signed by Yoshimoto Nara on a label that is pasted under the bottom of the snowdome. euro 800

115. Neumann, Max - Nooteboom, Cees. Fraulund. Munster: Kleinheinrich Verlag, 2000. Signed Copy. Large folio, unpaginated, 10 reproduced monotypes Max Neumann and 16 poems by Cees Nooteboom. Half cloth and paper over boards. Slipcase with black paper over boards.

- First edition. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by both Max Neumann and Cees Nooteboom euro 450

116. Niederberger, Jörg Volumen, Farbe, Zeichnung Köln: Valerian Maly, 1990. Cardboard slipcase that contains one small quarto size book with 86 pages and numerous colored illustrations, white paper over boards and illustrated wrappers + one printed cardboard box that contains a painted plaster Multiple (1 x x 17, 5 x 13, 5 cm).

- First edition. One of 14 numbered and signed copies with painted and signed Multiple. euro 160

117. Noël, Ann. YOU. Berlin: Rainer Verlag, 1982. Thick quarto, 412 pages of which 406 full page reproduced drawings. Illustrated paper over boards.

- First edition. One of 130 numbered and signed copies, with a loosely laid in and folded 4 color off-set print. The book prints on each page the lower case «i» in all it's variations. euro 450

118. Noiret, Joseph. Cobra.(Bruxelles): Edition Phantomas, 1972.Octavo, 43 pages, illustrated wrappers.

- First edition of this booklet published in honor of the 50th anniversary of Christian Dotremont. Noiret signed together with Asger Jorn, Constant, Appel and Corneille the manifesto 'La Cause était entendue’ (The Case was Heard). This manifesto, drawn up by Dotremont, was the founding document of the Cobra movement. This copy very nicely inscribed on the first free end paper to Carla and Sergio Dangelo in 1973. euro 150

119. Ohtake, Shinro. (Tay Teo Chuan) EZMD (Easy Marcel Duchamp) Tokyo: Yobisha Co., Ltd, 1980. Two octavo size Volumes. Volume 1: un-paginated (100 pages), printed in black and white + with several differently shaped cut-outs. Volume 2: un-paginated (100 pages) and entirely printed in color + several differently shaped cut-outs. Stiff printed wrappers. Both volumes fit into a printed card board chemise with printed wrap around band. A cassette tape is kept in printed card board portfolio with loosely laid in an 8 page booklet. All together in a decorated cardboard box with printed title labels.

- First edition. One of 1000 copies. The 46 minute cassette tape with works by Ohtake`s experimental audio group “19”. Complete with several loosely laid in papers with biographical + publication notes. euro 220

120. Olbrich, Jürgen O – Achim Schnyder. Collaboration Collapse. An International artists’ stamp project. Kassel: Kunstraum / Zentrum fur kunstlerischen Perforation, 1985-1987. Large silk screened cardboard envelope containing two large crystal paper envelopes in which one page that lists the participants + 9 perforated sheets of colored artists’ stamps and one envelope with colophon + 10 sheets of colored artists’ stamps.

- First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by both Olbrich and Schnyder. Participating artists: Hajo Antpöhler, Arno Arts, Mark Bloch, Wolfgang Hainke, Crag Hill, Axel Kretschmer, Richard Meade, Niall Monro, Georg Mühleck, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Mark Pawson, Geer Pouls, Günther Ruch, Achim Schnyder, Kurt Schwitters, Rod Summers, Chuck Stake, Manfred Stirnemann, Sandra Tivy and Franz-Josef Weber. euro 300

121. Oldenburg, Claes - Bruggen, Coosje van - Rudy Oxenaar. Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing. Otterlo/Keulen: Rijksmuseum Kröller Müller/Museum Ludwig, 1979. Illustrated cardboard box, (29,5 x 21 x 2,5 cm) , containing a text-sheet and quarto size oblong catalogue with 136 pages, illustrated throughout. Black printed wrappers. Near fine.

- First edition. This copy initialed by Oldenburg through title on title page of catalogue. euro 180

122. Orr, Eric - James Lee Byars. ZERO MASS: the art of Eric Orr. Lund: Anders Tornberg Gallery & AB Propexus, 1990. Styrofoam cushion package (27,5 x 29 x 8 ), containing large octavo, 320 pages, 43 colored and numbered plates, numerous text illustrations. Blue steel covered boards. James Lee Byars’s “The sphere of Generosity”, (a clay globe, 6 cm in diameter) fits into an opening in the Styrofoam box and was handmade by Keramikgruppen, Lund. “The Matter of O” was rubberstamped with Eric Orr’s blood. The “skull page” paper was handmade by Yoshio Ikezaki of Los Angeles, using kozo fibers and a powdered mummy’s skull, which was provided by the Benes Christmas Fund, New York City. The red color was screen-printed by Reklamtechnik AB, Malmo. The main sections of the book are: Johnny the story (page 31); Empty set (page 79); Light Space and Silence; (page 105), Thomas McEvilly on Eric Orr (page 129); Hearsay (153); Warning! (161); Artworks (1981-1990 )- this section has 43 colored plates with art works-; Nexus (259) and Johnny’s Mailbag (277). All together in publishers’ card board box. A mint copy.

- First edition. One of 1000 copies. euro 450

123. Osborn, Kevin Tropos Osbornbook, Arlington, VA 1988 - Softcover artist book. Handsomely printed offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine with Toyo inks, die-cut pages, and handcrafted wooden spine.

Trade edition of 1600. euro 80

 

124. Pasmore, Victor. (1908-1998) The dance of man. In Modern Times. Questions without an answer. / La Danza dell’Uomo. Nei Tempi Moderni. Poesi con dieci incisione die Victor Pamore. Edizione a cura di Eleonora e Walter Rossi. Traduzione italiana die Giovanna Zamboni. Rome: 2RC Editrice, 1972. Large square folio (50,5 x 50,5 cm), 44 pages, ten illustrations (etching and aquatint). Illustrated wrappers. The book fits into a protective plastic box that fits in a a publisher’s wooden shipping crate.

- First edition. One of 95 copies, numbered and signed by Victor Pasmore. This wonderfully illustrated book starts with the poem: ‘Deep inside/ I looked,/ said the microscope,/ but of the soul/ I could not find a sign./ God is dead,/ said the telescope,/ it is only the stars/ that shine./ But having dreamed/ he was a bird/ the emperor/became uncertain.” euro 4.000